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There is a 'sanctity' involved...

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To act is to be committed, and...

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

You know, it's not the world t...

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Life is tragic simply because ...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It was books that taught me th...

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The question of sexual dominan...

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The face of a lover is an unkn...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are few things more drea...

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Pessimists are the people who ...

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The writer's greed is appallin...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Voyagers discover that the wor...

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

He leaned up a little and watc...

He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are people in the world ...

There are people in the world for whom 'coming along' is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

People are too various to be t...

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

We all commit our crimes. The ...

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are too many things we d...

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It took many years of vomiting...

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Confronted with the impossibil...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

But the relationship of morali...

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Rage cannot be hidden, it can ...

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....